Love's Tangled Web by Donna Taylor

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Chapter 32

It was late at night at the Encounter Bar. As soon as they entered, Layton pulled Alex towards the stage. “Come on, maybe you’ll like her,” he said.

Alex wasn’t really interested and tugged Layton upstairs to get a drink.

On the stairs, Layton glanced back at the stage and suddenly tugged Alex, almost making them stumble. “Alex, look! Isn’t that Ellie?” he exclaimed.

Alex squinted at Ellie, who was singing on stage in a white dress, and his face darkened.

she looks amazing.” Layton said, impressed. “She’s

warning look,

stared at Ellie, his jaw tense. “She looks like, a ghost with all that makeup. It’s terrible,” he

and headed downstairs. “Is your girl going through a breakup? She sounds like she’s about to

coldly and headed

on her way to the restroom when she saw Alex smoking in the hallway. She paused for a moment, then decided to avoid

since she came back, Alex had been constantly trying to provoke her, even going so far as to insult her. That morning at her apartment, he’d been particularly harsh. She didn’t argue back, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t

had no intention of putting herself in an awkward situation by being around him again. If she could, she’d

in the hallway, she ran into Layton, who greeted her with a

his hands on something from her brother’s pocket. If her brother’s ring hadn’t been taken, she and her brother wouldn’t have been so embarrassed.

his hand and walked over to Alex, giving him a look of disapproval. “At Haley’s birthday party, I helped you out, but I ended up upsetting Ellie. Just now, she didn’t even call me, just turned